Jane Austen, who died on the 18th July 1817 was one of England’s most popular novelist. Although she had little success during her own lifetime, her novels became hugely popular many years after she died, particularly the works Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Her novels went on to inspire many films.

For some reason this coin features an alternate obverse type to the one that was expected. The obverse needs to show the date and denomination as these are not featured on the reverse. But instead of using Obverse 3d which has the date and states ‘TWO POUNDS’, this one (designated 3e) is abbreviated to ‘2 POUNDS’. Obverse 3d was previously used on coin 34b (The Magna Carta commemorative with the 5th portrait).

The fourth of five World War One themed coins to mark 100 years since WWI. The theme this year is aviation. Intially just a few hundred aeroplanes flew reconnaissance missions. By the end of the war the number had grown to thousands of aircraft and the Royal Flying Corps became the Royal Air Force in 1918.

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